Mediator-free electrochemical biosensor based on buckypaper with enhanced stability and sensitivity for glucose detection.

Here we report on a novel platform based on buckypaper for the design of high-performance electrochemical biosensors. Using glucose oxidase as a model enzyme, we constructed a biocompatible mediator-free biosensor and studied the potential effect of the buckypaper on the stability of the biosensor with both amperometry and FTIR spectroscopy. The results showed that the biosensor responses sensitively and selectively to glucose with a considerable functional lifetime of over 80 days. The fabricated enzymatic sensor detects glucose with a dynamic linear range of over 9 mM and a detection limit of 0.01 mM. To examine the efficiency of enzyme immobilization, the Michaelis-Menten constant (K(M)(app)) was calculated to be 4.67 mM. In addition, the fabricated electrochemical biosensor shows high selectivity; no amperometric response to the common interference species such as ascorbic acid, uric acid and acetamidophenol was observed. The facile and robust buckypaper-based platform proposed in this study opens the door for the design of high-performance electrochemical biosensors for medical diagnostics and environmental monitoring.

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